Primary Documents relating to the Civil War

• Frederick Douglass, 1817-1895, Autobiography

• Abraham Lincoln, A House Divided, June 16, 1858

• Steven A. Douglas, The Dividing Line Between Fderal and Local Authority, 1859

• John Brown's Raid [in a Contemporary Newspaper]

• John Brown's Final Address to the Court, November 2, 1859

• Democratic Platform 1860 (Douglas Faction)

• Democratic Platform 1860 (Breckenridge Faction)

• Republican Platform 1860

• The Crittendon Compromise (1860)

• Lincoln's 1st Inaugural Address (1861)

• Declarations of Causes of Secession [Civil War]

• Ordinances of Secession

• South Carolina's Address to the Slaveholding States

• Address of George Williamson to the Texas Secession Convention

• Speech of E.S. Dargan to the Alabama Secession Convention

• First Message of Governor Isham Harris to the Tennessee Assembly

• Second Message of Governor Isham Harris to the Tennessee Assembly

• Constitution of the Confederate States of America

• The Battle Hymn of the Republic

• George B. McClellan to Abraham Lincoln, 7 July 1862 on the Union defeat during the Peninsula Campaign

• Davis, Varina: Christmas in the Confederate White House

• Cordley, Richard: The Lawrence Massacre, 1863

• Francis Lieber, Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field, 1863

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Marching Song of the First Arkansas

• 35 Days to Gettysburg: the Campaign Diaries of Two Americans

• Albert Underwood's Civil War Diary

• Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, 5 July 1864 and the Confederate defeat at Gettysburg

• Lincoln, Gettysburg Address

• All Quiet Along the Potomac

• Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address (1865)

• The John and James Booker Civil War Letters

• Online delivery and searching for the letters and diaries that are a part of the Valley of the Shadow Project.

• In process: The Corinne Carr Nettleton Civil War Collection. Correspondence between Adelaide E. Case and Charles Tenney, 1861-1863 (Rare Book School 2000).
• In process: The Brand Family Civil War letters. M. McGaskell.

  
  

RECONSTRUCTION AND PROGRESSIVE PERIOD

• Seward's Alaska Treaty with Russia, March 30, 1867

• Ulysses S. Grant, First Inaugural Address (1869)

• Ulysses S. Grant, Second Inaugural Address (1873)

• Rutherford B. Hayes, Inaugural Address (1877)